The Power Process

Theme

  1. The sexual revolution happens over and over. It is not a ramp. It is a loop. Over and over and over, we choose a new class of people to elevate as a sexual ideal, and that group becomes an archetypal object of desire.
  2. The very first sexual revolution was an attempt to eroticize masculine women, where previously only feminine women were seen as suitable objects of male desire. The suffrage of women; the emancipation of women, this was a sexual revolution, a demand by unfeminine women to be held up as the sexual equals of their prettier and more delicate sisters.
  3. Each in their turn became socially sanctioned sex objects: masculine women, single mothers, women of races other than one’s own, men, transgendereds, women who were taken by other men (this was called polyamory), the nascently pubescent, certain animals, the recently dead, robots, shogs, what next? Once the revolution took hold, it was impossible to stop. The sexual revolution began much earlier than anyone thought, and continues to this day, a demon extracting a tithe of flesh against every generation.
  4. But how did we come to this? Remember that you have to ask, invite the evil in, it does not simply come to you.
  5. For the sake of love, women wholly become what they are in the imagination of the men who love them. Women can loudly wear different sexual personas – the pixie, the vamp, the witch – and yet ultimately these are performative. They are not precisely what she wants, but what she thinks society wants, or at best, a negotiated compromise between the two. But you say, “the image can stand in for the substance, it’s a proxy.” No. It does not represent reality, it becomes reality. If it is a proxy for substance, then when do we actually talk about the substance? The image does not just influence our values. It changes the way we think so that certain values become inevitable.

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